For those of you familiar with my “Looking Back” series of blog posts (latest here), there was almost one today about a post of mine from December 2021 on “Review - ChemLock Fact Sheets”. However, after reviewing the CISA ChemLock web site, I decided that it was probably more appropriate to do a new blog post on the topic.
Fact Sheets
Early in the CFATS program, DHS started producing a number of short informational brochures about various chemical security topics. Typically just two pages, these Fact Sheets provided a brief look at a specific topic and provided links to other, more detailed information about the topics. They were never designed to make someone a chemical security expert, but they did form a valuable library for chemical professionals to become more aware of security issues.
When I wrote that first blog post (CFSN version here) there were just seven fact sheets on the ChemLock web site. Now there are three separate pages listing listing 14 separate ChemLock Fact Sheets:
- ChemLock General Fact Sheets,
- ChemLock Security Consideration Fact Sheets, and
- ChemLock Security Goal Fact Sheets.
Commentary
The Office of Chemical Security continues to have a problem publicly sharing information on the ChemLock Program. While there have been training announcements from @CISAgov for various ChemLock classes (here is the most recent), I have not seen any other outreach efforts and no mentions of these new fact sheets. I understand that CISA is still recovering from the emasculation of the agency that occurred last year, but if they want to keep the ChemLock program going, they are going to have to start making more of an effort to bring facilities into the fold. Publicly talking about the program is an important part of that effort.
For more information on these fact sheets, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/chemlock-fact-sheets-august-2026 - subscription required.
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